Oriental, Black, and White: the formation of racial habits in american theater./

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In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Josephine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Race in the theater > United States > History > 19th century.
Race in the theater > United States > History > 20th century.
Orientalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Orientalism > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in the performing arts > History > 19th century.
African Americans in the performing arts > History > 20th century.
Blackface > United States.
Yellowface > United States.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Blackface.
Orientalism.
Race in the theater.
Race relations.
Yellowface.
United States > Race relations.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oriental, black, and white
  • The racial refashioning of "Aladdin"
  • The lesser roles of Ira Aldridge
  • Blackface minstrelsy's Japanese turns
  • The tricky servant in blackface and yellowface
  • The Chinese laundry sketch
  • "Maybe now and then a Chinaman": African American impersonators and Chinese specialties
  • Divas and dancers: oriental femininity and African American performance
  • Oriental frolics and racial uplift in the early African American musical
  • Pleasure domes and journeys home: "In Dahomey," "Abyssinia," "The Children of the Sun," and "Shuffle Along"
  • Fantasy islands: staging the Philippines, 1900-1914
  • Racial puzzles, chop suey, and Juanita Long Hall in "Flower Drum Song.".

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